feat(chat): say a compaction out loud, as one row with its summary folded in - #1295
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesClaude compaction handling
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClaudeTranscript
participant ClaudeSessionsProvider
participant normalizedToChatMessages
participant MessageComponent
ClaudeTranscript->>ClaudeSessionsProvider: compact_boundary or status event
ClaudeSessionsProvider->>normalizedToChatMessages: normalized compaction row
normalizedToChatMessages->>normalizedToChatMessages: fold compact summary
normalizedToChatMessages->>MessageComponent: ChatMessage with compact metadata
MessageComponent->>MessageComponent: render phase and optional summary
Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the chat compaction display because it adds end-to-end handling for live and historical compaction states, summaries, and failure indicators with medium product severity. Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Chat histories containing multiple compactions with the same summary can lose the summary for a later compaction, leaving an incomplete compaction row. This should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@server/modules/providers/list/claude/claude-sessions.provider.ts`:
- Around line 756-758: Update the compaction-row handling in normalizeMessage
and appendCompactionRow so a terminal compaction record replaces the preceding
phase: 'running' row rather than leaving both rows visible, while retaining
existing placeholder cleanup behavior. Add regression coverage for
running-to-done and running-to-failed transitions, verifying only the terminal
row remains.
In `@src/modules/chat/hooks/useChatMessages.ts`:
- Around line 127-128: Update the duplicate-removal condition in the compaction
conversion loop so only assistant rows can be removed, excluding user rows even
when their text matches the flagged summary; then add a regression test for this
collision in compactionRows.test.ts.
- Around line 161-163: Update the backward scan in the message normalization
logic around the compactSummary handling so it consumes only the immediately
preceding synthetic summary row, preventing an orphan summary from being
associated with a later compaction boundary across an ordinary row. Preserve
existing compaction behavior and add coverage for an orphan summary followed by
an ordinary row and then a compaction boundary.
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105-106: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftScope duplicate-summary tracking to one compaction.
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foldedSummariesset drops a valid summary when two compactions produce the same text. For example,[boundary(), summary(), boundary(), summary()]leaves the second compaction withoutcompactSummary.Track duplicates by compaction occurrence or by a provider association key. Do not use a session-wide summary-text set. Add this repeated-summary sequence to
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In `@src/modules/chat/hooks/useChatMessages.ts`:
- Around line 105-106: Update the duplicate-summary check in the relevant
compaction logic around foldedSummaries so tracking is scoped to a single
compaction or keyed by provider association rather than a session-wide
summary-text set; preserve compactSummary for repeated text produced by separate
compactions. Add a regression test in compactionRows.test.ts covering
boundary(), summary(), boundary(), summary() and asserting the second compaction
retains compactSummary.
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Compaction is the most expensive thing a long session does without being
asked, and the conversation said nothing about it: both records that
describe one are `system` events, which normalize to nothing. What was left
was the summary itself, a 15-25 KB assistant bubble arriving with nothing in
front of it to say what it was.
The server turns both into one ordinary assistant row -- everything they
say is in `content`, so a client that knows nothing of the new `compact`
field still reads the sentence:
Compacted · manual · 335k → 10k tokens · 2m 22s
Compacting conversation…
Compaction failed: context still too large
The client draws that row, folds the summary into it behind a disclosure,
and reconciles the three rows a compaction actually produces:
- the boundary (the numbers) and the flagged summary arrive in opposite
orders live and from history, so the fold works from either direction;
- the CLI writes the summary twice, once flagged and once into the live
stream, and the unflagged copy is dropped wherever it landed;
- the CLI also acknowledges compaction with the bare word `Compacted`,
which is dropped only when a real row exists to replace it -- against a
server that reports none it is the only trace there is.
Closes siteboon#1292
Signed-off-by: Liran Funaro <liran.funaro@gmail.com>
The row a summary folds into can be one the projection cache handed back, which is shared across renders -- and a memoized row that keeps its identity while its content changes does not redraw. Replace it instead. Signed-off-by: Liran Funaro <liran.funaro@gmail.com>
Three things the review caught, all real. A `running` row was left standing under the row that said how the compaction ended, because only a summary-only row was being replaced. Both were then visible, live. A terminal row now replaces a running one — and carries over the summary if one had already folded into it, which is the order running → summary → boundary that live delivery produces and that would otherwise have dropped the summary on the floor. The stray-copy scan could take a *user* row that happened to repeat the summary text. Assistant rows only. The orphan-summary scan reached backwards past intervening rows, so a compaction that arrived later could adopt a summary belonging to an earlier one. Only the row directly above is superseded now; a compaction further back belongs to itself. Four cases added: running → done, running → failed, running → summary → boundary keeping the summary, an orphan left alone behind an ordinary row, and a user echo of the summary text surviving. Two of them fail without the first fix. Signed-off-by: Liran Funaro <liran.funaro@gmail.com>
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Closes #1292.
The problem
Both records that describe a compaction are
systemevents, andnormalizeMessageRowsreturns nothing for those — so the status the CLI sends when it starts compacting and thecompact_boundaryit sends when it finishes, metadata and all, were dropped. What reached the reader was the summary alone: a 15–25 KB assistant bubble arriving with nothing in front of it to say what it was or where it came from.Server
claude-sessions.provider.tsturns both records into one ordinary assistant row. Everything the row says is incontent, so a client that knows nothing of the newcompactfield still reads the sentence:compactbeside it (CompactionInfo:phase,trigger,preTokens,postTokens,durationMs,error) is only how the client draws it. Both spellings of the metadata are read —compact_metadatalive,compactMetadataon disk.Client
normalizedToChatMessagescarries the field onto the row and reconciles the three rows one compaction actually produces. This is the part that took measuring, against 19 compactions in one 12,448-record transcript plus live runs:Compacted, never written to the transcript (0 of 12,448 records). It is dropped only when a real compaction row exists to replace it: against a server that reports none it is the only trace there is. A message that merely mentions the word is untouched.MessageComponentdraws the row in the same shape as the task-notification row beside it — a state dot, the sentence, and the summary behind a<details>disclosure — with two newenkeys and English defaults for the locales that do not carry the namespace yet.Tests
13 new: 6 server (
claude-compaction.test.ts— both metadata spellings, a boundary with none, running, failed, other statuses producing nothing, and the summary keeping its flag) and 7 client (compactionRows.test.ts— both orders, an orphan summary, both duplicate positions, both notice cases, the mention case, and a running compaction keeping its phase).Checks
npm run typecheckclean,npm test421 passing / 1 pre-existing skip,vitest403 passing (57 files),vite buildclean,oxlintreports nothing on any file this touches.Summary by CodeRabbit
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Overlap with #1296. Both PRs add a branch to
normalizedToChatMessagesand a field to the same two type blocks, so whichever lands second will conflict textually (not semantically — the two branches are independent and ordered by their own guards). Say the word and I will rebase this one onto the other, or ontomainafter it merges.